Peter Coutts collection, 1881-1956.

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Peter Coutts collection, 1881-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462019689

Correspondence from Coutts, his granddaughter, Marguerite Berlin, and others regarding Coutts' property and Coutts' background. Also included are two tintypes (1883) of Cornelius Van Buren and his son George M. Van Buren, who rode horses for Coutts, and a five page manuscript by Marguerite E. Berlin, "History of Jean-Baptiste Paulin Caperon, Known as Peter Coutts, in Mayfield, now Palo Alto, Calif., " (1953).

.25 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7562029

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Van Buren, Cornelius.

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Coutts, P. J. F. (Peter J. F.)

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Jean-Baptiste Paulin Caperon (better known in California as Peter Coutts), was a successful French businessman, book collector and editor of the republican, anti-royalist paper, LA LIBERTEĢ. Political disputes and health problems caused him to leave France and take up residence in California. In 1875 Caperon, now known as Peter Coutts, purchased 1,400 acres just north of Mayfield and named it Rancho Matadero. Coutts returned to Europe in 1880 to reclaim his confiscated estates and Rancho Matader...

Caperon, Marguerite Eugenie.

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Berlin, Marguerite Caperon.

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Rancho Matadero (Calif.)

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Caperon, Jean-Baptiste Paulin.

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